Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek PastStanford University Press, 1 de jan. de 1996 - 236 páginas Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use. |
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Archaeology Without | 27 |
Earliest Man in | 41 |
Four An Outpost of the Agricultural Revolution | 63 |
Five Civilization Coming | 79 |
Six At the Edge of a Greater World | 102 |
Seven Byzantine Chapels to Beach Hotels | 122 |
A History of People | 155 |
Glossary | 187 |
Bibliography | 201 |
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